Many Christians say that American scientists believe in God out of thin air, but some data report that they have found a truth: "Almost all outstanding American scientists don't believe in Christianity!"

Surprised? Almost all outstanding American scientists don't believe in Christianity!

When Christians preach, they like to lie and use people's misunderstandings to mislead others. For example, a Christian said, "Most of the famous outstanding scientists in the modern world are Christians. They engaged in scientific research with awe of God and created one scientific theory after another. " Is it true?/You don't say. We like to speak with hard facts.

Before we get to the point, let's talk about an example where Christians take advantage of people's misunderstanding. After reading my anti-gay post, the first reaction of many Christians is: Christianity has been circulating for two thousand years, and so many extremely smart people (such as so-and-so famous scientists) have believed in Christianity. Are you the only one smarter than them?

This is a typical example of clever use of people's misunderstanding. Let's analyze it. The implicit logic here is that because Christianity has been circulating for two thousand years, there are so many extremely intelligent people who believe in Christianity, but Christianity does not.

Wrong is truth. Is that really the case? Well, if Christianity is really the "truth", then according to Christian belief, Christianity is the "only truth" and Buddhism/Islam are fallacies, right? So,

We can also ask the same question: Buddhism/Islam has been circulating for thousands of years, and so many extremely intelligent people believe in Buddhism/Islam. Is Buddhism/Islam a fallacy? It can be seen that this logic is unreasonable.

Yes!

Now get down to business.

When Christians preach, they sometimes list a long list of scientists to tell you that these scientists are all Christians. Implication: You see, so many excellent scientists believe in Christianity, but Christianity can still.

Is there a problem? What are you hesitating about? (Off-topic: Many times, there are lies in the names of this string of scientists. For example, I saw that some Christians listed Einstein as a Christian scientist, and some Christians dispersed.

He lied that Darwin regretted establishing the theory of evolution and believed in Christianity. These are all lies that have already been exposed. Interested students please do some homework by yourself. )

Well, let's assume that all the scientists listed by Christians believe in Christianity. Christians forget that there are indeed outstanding scientists who believe in Christianity, but there are also many outstanding scientists who do not believe in Christianity!

How to determine the belief of an outstanding scientist? The scientific method is to directly investigate the thoughts of scientists, not to see if their parents were "baptized" for them when they were babies! Fortunately.

Cloud, nature, one of the most authoritative scientific magazines, made such a survey! (digression: those who don't know what an authoritative scientific magazine Nature is, please trouble yourselves.

Do more homework. )

A paper was published in Nature, covering the surveys made by 19 14, 1934, 1996 and 1998. These findings show that among American scientists, the proportion of people who believe in Christianity.

Much less. By 1998, only 7% of the members of the American Academy of Sciences believed in "God"! ! ! 19 14 years, the proportion of "gods" in the academician center of the American Academy of Sciences is still 27%

That's right. With the development of science, is this ratio falling fast enough? The proportion of "gods" in the academician center of the American Academy of Sciences has dropped sharply to 7%. What does this mean? Of course, even if only 7% members of the American Academy of Sciences

Believing in "God" is also a long list! Ha ha!

This paper in Nature was published in (Nature 394, 365, 438+03 (1998)). See the original English text:

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Chinese translation can be found online. We attach the following translation:

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Almost all outstanding American scientists don't believe in God.

Since the beginning of this century, people have been arguing about the religious beliefs of American scientists. Our latest survey found that among the top natural scientists, the proportion of unbelievers is higher than before-almost all people don't believe in God.

James H. Baru, a famous American psychologist, was the first person to study this subject.

Leuba), he made a landmark survey in 19 14. He found that among 1000 randomly selected American scientists, 58% said they did not believe or doubt the existence of God. Among 400 "big" families,

Among scientists, this number has risen to nearly 70%. Twenty years later, Balu repeated the survey in some different ways and found that these two figures rose to 67% and 85% respectively.

In 1996, we repeated Baru's investigation in 19 14 and reported our results to Nature. We find that American scientists have not changed much since 19 14.

60.7% people said they did not believe or doubted the existence of God. This year (1998), we closely simulated Balu's investigation in the second issue of 19 14, and investigated the beliefs of those "big" scientists, and found the proportion of those who believe in God.

It is unprecedentedly low-only about 7%.

Balu attributed a high proportion of "big" scientists to their "super knowledge, understanding and experience". Similarly, Oxford University scientist Peter Agins (Peter

Atkins), commenting on our 1996 survey, said, "You can obviously become a scientist and have religious beliefs. But because the knowledge categories of science and religion are so different, I don't think they are more profound.

In a sense, the comment that you can become a real scientist leads us to repeat the second stage of Baru's research and make the latest comparison between the religious beliefs of "big" and "small" scientists.

The "big" group of scientists we choose is a member of the American Academy of Sciences. Our investigation found that natural scientists in the Academy of Sciences almost unanimously denied the existence of transcendental things. The proportion of people who don't believe in God and those who don't believe in immortality is in the Academy of Sciences.

Biologists and physicists in China Academy of Sciences account for 65.2% and 69.0%, 79.0% and 76.3% respectively. Most of the remaining people are skeptical about these two issues, and few people believe them.

Yes We found that mathematicians in the Academy of Sciences have the highest belief ratio (14.3% believe in God, 15.0% believe in eternal life). Biologists have the lowest proportion of beliefs (5.5% believe in God and 7. 1% believe in immortality).

Physicists and astronomers are slightly more (7.5% believe in God and 7.5% believe in immortality).

It is difficult to repeat Baru's method. For the census, he randomly selected a list of scientists from the standard reference book American Scientists (AMS). We used the existing edition of this book. When I was in Baru

Hou, editor of Journal of the American Academy of Medical Sciences, marked "great scientist" in the entry, and correspondingly marked his "great" scientist. AMS is no longer marked like this, so we regard academicians of the Academy of Sciences as our "big" topic.

Scientists, in the early AMS, this identity is also a symbol of "great scientists". Our method produces more outstanding samples than Baru's method, which may explain the extremely low level of our respondents.

The proportion of faith (if the comments of Balu and Agins quoted above are correct).

In the survey of 19 14, Balu mailed his short questionnaire to 400 "great scientists" randomly selected from AMS. It asked respondents whether they believed in "a person who can have intelligence and feelings with human beings".

God of communication of love "and" individual immortality ". Respondents can choose to answer yes, no or doubt for each question. Our survey included exactly the same questions and asked for anonymous answers.

Balu sent the questionnaire of 19 14 to 400 "biological and physical scientists", including mathematicians, physicists and astronomers. As the number of members of the Academy of Sciences is relatively small, we put our

The questionnaire was sent to all 5 17 members of the Academy of Sciences in these core disciplines. In 19 14, Balu recovered about 70% of the answers, and in 1933, it exceeded 75%, while our investigation in 1996 recovered them.

60%, the survey of members of the Academy of Sciences has resumed slightly over 50%.

While we were sorting out the survey results, the Academy of Sciences issued a pamphlet to encourage the teaching of evolution in public schools, which has always been in conflict between the American scientific community and some conservative Christians. This booklet wants readers to believe that "science is neutral on the existence of God". Bruce Elbers Mountains, President of the Academy of Sciences

Alberts) said: "There are many outstanding members of the Academy of Sciences, who have very devout religious beliefs and believe in evolution. Many of them are biologists. " Our findings are different.